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Yup'ik RavenMarshall Cultural Atlas

This collection of student work is from Frank Keim's classes. He has wanted to share these works for others to use as an example of Culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These documents have been OCR-scanned. These are available for educational use only.

 

 

 

 

Marshall's Future

It was November 25, 2097. The population of an old Yupik village is now 90,057. As I grew up I watched the place change. My grandfather used to tell me that people would change and the land would change too. About a hundred years ago the village population was less than four hundred. Now the village is a small city. We all live only off the stores because all the Native food we used to eat we can't find anymore. Even what we find we can't eat because it's poisonous. Most of the population in Marshall is now made up of Koreans. Way less than half is Native. We only travel by boat and truck or car anymore because there's no more snow. In fact I haven't seen any snow for about twenty five years now. The climate sure has changed in the last fifty years. Due to global warming the weather is always warm and the Yukon never freezes anymore. A lot of the people are dying of skin cancer from all the UV-B rays that they get because the ozone layer is disappearing. The Yukon is so dry it's like a slough now. What used to be called the Kuskokwim is now only a creek. Today is a lot different than a long time ago. We are suffering just like people everywhere in the world. In many places they have to use oxygen masks on certain days because there's so little oxygen left. One of the reasons is that most of the trees are gone because corporations like Mitsubishi have wiped out most of the trees all over the world. Also, the old TAPS pipeline broke a few years ago and spilled over thirty million barrels of oil into Alaska's rivers, including the Yukon River. After the oil spill, water resources all over Alaska are now contaminated. One of my few sons last year died from drinking poisonous water. People don't seem to have learned because the population is still increasing. Last week the hospital counted twenty-one pregnant women, and only four sick people. But we've averaged about two murders per month.

There are 25 schools here in Marshall. The high school I went to a 100 years ago has only grades 9-12. It is named after of one of the oldest elders. The other six high schools are on the other side of Wilson Creek where there are houses all the way up the side of the mountain. The biggest building here is five stories high. Long ago we only had a couple of buildings that were two stories high.

I sure hope we don't have to live like that in a 100 years!

By Joel Isaac

Marshall's Future

 

Marshall 2097

- Willie Paul Fitka

One Big Happy Desert

- Charlotte Alstrom

Marshall's Future

- Joel Isaac

Marshall As We Know It

- Cheryl Hunter

Some Time In The Future

- Jonathan Boots

Hope 2097

- Rose Lynn Fitka

In The Year 2097

- Jack George

This! or This?

 

Fishy Research Student Whoppers Parent Whoppers Elder Whoppers
Staff Whoppers Adventures Under the Sea Global Warming The Crystal Ball--Imagining how it will be

 

Christmastime Tales
Stories real and imaginary about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1996
Christmastime Tales II
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1998
Christmastime Tales III
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 2000
Summer Time Tails 1992 Summertime Tails II 1993 Summertime Tails III
Summertime Tails IV Fall, 1995 Summertime Tails V Fall, 1996 Summertime Tails VI Fall, 1997
Summertime Tails VII Fall, 1999 Signs of the Times November 1996 Creative Stories From Creative Imaginations
Mustang Mind Manglers - Stories of the Far Out, the Frightening and the Fantastic 1993 Yupik Gourmet - A Book of Recipes  
M&M Monthly    
Happy Moose Hunting! September Edition 1997 Happy Easter! March/April 1998 Merry Christmas December Edition 1997
Happy Valentine’s Day! February Edition 1998 Happy Easter! March/April Edition 2000 Happy Thanksgiving Nov. Edition, 1997
Happy Halloween October 1997 Edition Edible and Useful Plants of Scammon Bay Edible Plants of Hooper Bay 1981
The Flowers of Scammon Bay Alaska Poems of Hooper Bay Scammon Bay (Upward Bound Students)
Family Trees and the Buzzy Lord It takes a Village - A guide for parents May 1997 People in Our Community
Buildings and Personalities of Marshall Marshall Village PROFILE Qigeckalleq Pellullermeng ‘A Glimpse of the Past’
Raven’s Stories Spring 1995 Bird Stories from Scammon Bay The Sea Around Us
Ellamyua - The Great Weather - Stories about the Weather Spring 1996 Moose Fire - Stories and Poems about Moose November, 1998 Bears Bees and Bald Eagles Winter 1992-1993
Fish Fire and Water - Stories about fish, global warming and the future November, 1997 Wolf Fire - Stories and Poems about Wolves Bear Fire - Stories and Poems about Bears Spring, 1992

 

 
 

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